Who breaks in Europe for the little-Teutonic turn of the French Barnier
Italics by Teo Dalavecuras
Michel Barnier threw a boulder into the Brussels pond. Barnier is the French politician of Gaullist extraction with an important past as a European commissioner , who led the negotiations for the United Kingdom's exit from the EU with a very firm hand, managing (not alone, of course) to hold together the twenty-seven condominiums and avoid the usual cacophony that occurs in Europe every time the condominium or dev and face serious problems. I'm talking about a condominium not for the pleasure of using an obvious metaphor but because the European Union is technically organized like a condominium , where , due to the sacredness of the right to property , unanimity is required on crucial decisions, those that pertain to ownership. With the consequence that everything concerning the daily management of the property is concentrated in the hands of the administrator . I n the case of the EU is called "European Commission" has a summit that lasts five years (much more than the average duration of the groom the italian i) is stronger than tens of thousands of highly paid bureaucrats and now deals with almost all aspects of the life of Union citizens . Small flaw: it is not democratically or legittimat.
The administrators of the Brussels condominium are deeply irritated and perhaps even worried, because Barnier , who boasts first-rate European credentials and has decided to run for the French presidential elections next year, has made the scandalous proposal to hold a referendum in France to create a "constitutional shield" that allows the recovery of "freedom of maneuver and interpretation". And "for good reason", as it was once said, he added that France must regain influence in Europe with respect to Germany. The proposal is limited to the issue of immigration, in which the EU has demonstrated in every way the impossibility of getting along, but which the Commission has no intention of getting out of hand, having just launched a new rich dedicated “agency” (discussed in a previous Startmag article ).
This morning Brussels Playbook , Politico's online newspaper , ( bought in recent days by Springer Verlag ) went wild. Barnier's "anti-European" turn is such an enormity , he writes, that it was thought of disinformation by the Russians, he writes. And then he cites a French State Secretary for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, a "wonder" and this can not astounded r and, given the role of Beaune. From a certain Julien Hoez of the European liberals he quotes the following sentence: "Michel Barnier teaches how to destroy one's career and credibility in the hope of appearing to be eligible for an electorate who detests him". He accuses Barnier of the cherry-pi c kin g ( the claim that is to remain in the Union without recognizing, in a given matter, in this case the control of immigration, the decisions of the European Court of Justice ) , which Barnier himself had prevented from p ra TiCare – successfully, it must be said – to the British negotiators during the long negotiations for the release of the UK from the EU.
The Barnier initiative is obviously aimed at the race for the Elysee, but is designed with great care and that's why the first response from the Commission through Brussel Playbook, Germany today is even angry: the usual anonymous sources "are to know ”that Barnier has not given up on his“ generous ” EU pension.
Considering the depth and gravity of the immigration problem and the objective data of the unbridgeable distance between the various Member States in this matter, think of facing an initiative studied like that of Barnier with such poor arguments, from " Mariuccia asylum", or giving a man with Barnier's story of the anti-European, he would n't seem particularly smart. The facts have shown that this problem cannot be solved with the quirky and expensive expedients, called "compromises", of which the Brussels bureaucracy is a master and on which it has built its power. However it will be interesting to see if and how this controversy develops.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/chi-sbrocca-in-europa-per-la-svolta-poco-teutonica-del-francese-barnier/ on Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:49:11 +0000.